Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage ‘Free Palestine’ Statements
In an exclusive statement shared with Rolling Stone, Messina Touring Group, promoter of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s Loop Tour, said: “As the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans. After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates.”
Macklemore was slated to appear at eight of the 10 shows left on the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s tour, which is set to resume this Friday, Sept. 19, in Philadelphia. The venues that allegedly objected to the rapper include: Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia; Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts; Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta; Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis; Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina; AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas; and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
Macklemore — who’s been an outspoken supporter of Palestinians and those in Gaza for several years — joined the Loop Tour earlier this month, performing two shows at MetLife Stadium outside of New York City, on Sept. 4 and 5. At the first show, the Seattle rapper yelled “Free Palestine” onstage and expressed solidarity with people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. He also showed images from the devastation in Gaza and performed his protest song, “Hind’s Hall,” about pro-Palestine demonstrators at Columbia, who occupied a building and named it after Hind Raja, a six-year-old killed by the Israeli military.
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Never liked Ed. Knew guys like him in high-school.
They could strum a guitar a little and acted like the sun shined outta of their inbred looking ass.
Guess I'll be listening to Macklemore for the rest of the day.
Fuck Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheridan sucks gop cock anyway
I always thought his music sucks, and now I finally have genuine cause to dislike him personally too.
The last stop on Sheeran’s Loop Tour, for instance, is Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, which found itself in a similar spot earlier this summer after booking two Kanye West concerts. The shows, unsurprisingly, drew backlash and calls for cancellation due to West’s many past antisemitic statements, but they went ahead as planned.
I guess the use of "dropped" rather than "cancelled" is kinda interesting
I’m still having trouble parsing that quote in the first paragraph. For a second I thought it was AI, but it’s a quote.
So I guess it’s not cancelled. 🤷
I know nothing about US Culture, but I do know Macklemore's name. Who TF is Ed Sheeran, like a talk show host? Let's boycott those mr. Sheeran, those stadiums, and the companies that own them.
He's a shitty pop star.
Thanks for your assistance. Seems 50% agree with you, per the response to my comment.
He's a hobbit that got gifted the one-true-algorithm and used it to propel himself to stardom. Please, save yourself, avoid at all costs.
My take is that he is a sentient Scotch Egg that bathed in the fountain of inexplicable popularity, and made his career spoon feeding saps the musical equivalent of lukewarm diarrhea.